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[Feature] Ukraine far from normal, despite EU-brokered ceasefire
With Ukraine fading from the headlines amid Russia’s intervention in Syria, EUobserver visited the war-torn country to see the reality behind the EU-brokered ceasefire. …read more Source:...
The ex-files: Former commissioners’ new jobs
A new survey from transparency NGO Corporate Europe Observatory tracks the positions now held by members of the previous European Commission, many of whom have taken roles on management boards of corporations, NGOs and institutions since leaving office a year ago. Here’s an overview of what former Commission President José Manuel Barroso...
Erdoğan’s boomerang
ANKARA — With Turkey approaching its second election in five months, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan once again emerged from his gargantuan palace to campaign for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). Although the constitution designates the presidency as a nonpartisan office, that didn’t stop Erdoğan from pushing during...
Baltics can rejoice at Polish election outcome | Verslo žinios – Lithuania
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Ukraine ruling prompts EU rethink on sanctions
EU judges have said member states had no grounds to impose an asset freeze on a Ukrainian former regime member, putting in doubt other listings. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Court embarrasses EU on Ukraine sanctions
EU judges on Monday overturned an asset freeze imposed last year on Andriy Portnov, a business associate of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, citing lack of evidence that he helped embezzle state funds. The EU already removed Portnov from its list in March, but he continued the court case anyway. …read more Source:...
Poroshenko hobbles on
KIEV — It was meant to be a local election campaign like no other, a scrubbed-up democratic exercise following two years of death and sacrifice. Yet Sunday’s vote in Ukraine was a depressing return to type. There was vote rigging, criminality, dodgy candidates, violence, widespread voter apathy and buckwheat handouts, and one set of...
EU suffers major court defeat on Ukraine sanctions
The General Court of the European Union on Monday annulled European sanctions against a Ukrainian oligarch, harshly criticizing the evidence relied on by European countries and delivering a blow to the bloc’s fledgling sanctions regime. The court struck down a March 2014 decision by the Council that froze the assets of Andriy Portnov. The...
Why Nord Stream is another Mistral deal
The decision of some German, Austrian, British, Dutch and French energy companies to do business with Gazprom must be severely lamented. Not only is it environmentally and economically wrong, it’s a brazen-faced dismissal of the principles of the intended European Energy Union, which are based on fair competition and solidarity. Just a few...
Ukraine local elections leave voters bitter
Less than half of all eligible voters turned out for local elections in Ukraine amid growing disillusionment with the slow pace of reforms and an economy in free fall. …read more Source:...
